Little problems with HDD and video
Hello,
I'm using Trisquel as my main OS since about a month, and I love it :-)
Within that time I'm experiencing two small problems with my computer:
1. HDD is working heavily for a while, when: running some scripts in Abrowser on todoist.com webpage (this is a "to do" list service), also when I write a small piece of text into a flat file SQLite3 database which is located on my disk (it's like I would write some text to file and save it to disk, but when I save text files the problem doesn't occur). I didn't had those problems when I was running Win10 or Win8 on this machine.
2. Sometimes the video playback is not so smooth as it should be, especially when watching YouTube; VLC keeps hanging for about 15 seconds on almost every video file when I move the mouse during playback, but the audio playback continues.
I'd be grateful if anyone have any suggestions on how to fix these problems.
Best regards,
Marek
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what gpu?
lspci -nnk | grep VGA
I've had much better experience with smplayer for youtube vids.
sudo apt-get install smplayer
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06)
It's an Intel HD Graphics 4600.
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good graphics card. Well, vlc had this behavior for me too when I was using trisquel on an intel atom with intel gpu. I really recommend you again smplayer, it's much faster than vlc and it works great. I didn't answer your first qstn because no idea..
Regarding the first question you could put your Abrowser profile and cache into ram. That will make things faster and no more disk crunching, probably helps with battery life as well.
There are various scripts floating around to do that (the issue is preserving changes as ram is volatile). Or you could do it manually. There is an existing tmpfs in /dev/shm.
On #2, you could try the latest kernel + x stack https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel
Thank you for your suggestions.
I already have the latest kernel and SMPlayer hangs for a while exactly the same way VLC does - when I move my mouse while playing full screen video - it has something to do with showing the control bar at the bottom; it's "funny" that two different media players have the same problems on my computer...
I think I'll just wait for the new Trisquel/kernel/VLC versions, I can live with that ;-)